When Empurpled: An Elegy

by Marzi Margo

“Matt Margo’s writing is like a bacterium that invades the host and destroys it emotionally.” - Noah Cicero, author of GO TO WORK AND DO YOUR JOB. CARE FOR YOUR CHILDREN. PAY YOUR BILLS. OBEY THE LAW. BUY PRODUCTS.

"what language isn't is not what you don't know but what you are going to feel you don't know. i read quiet long amounts of words and so are you to. a full stop does not appear. breathe a lot to start and then start. i love you." - Diane Marie, author of I WROTE A POEM DEDICATED TO GOD THAT I CONSIDERED TO BE EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL

233 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2013

About the author

Marzi Margo is a person who writes and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Ver books include , yogaflowers (Ghost City Press, 2020), pink maggit (Ghost City Press, 2019), road road road road road (ma press, 2019), Pennine Hillsongs (The Haunted Mask II) (Ghost City Press, 2018), yr yr (Ghost City Press, 2017), Blueberry Lemonade (Bottlecap Press, 2015), and When Empurpled: An Elegy (Pteron Press, 2013). Ve has previously served as Founding Editor of Zoomoozophone Review, Publicity Assistant for Gold Wake Press, Assistant Editor of Gold Wake Live, Editor-in-Chief of experiential-experimental-literatureBanango Lit, Founding Editor of Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter, and Editor-in-Chief of white sky ebooks. In addition to ver writing, Margo also produces experimental music under the names Let's Fight! and Y Botellas. Ve tweets @wigglytuff_pink.